The Distant Promise
The fever was a living thing, a gray and cold guest that had moved into my lungs three days ago. It did not knock. It simply sat in the corner of the room, breathing with me, expanding when I inhaled and contracting when I exhaled. I was twelve years old, small enough to be swallowed by the shadows in the corner of my bedroom, but the fever made me feel vast, a hollow bell ringing in a silent...
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